[ The text I wrote here is writtenin rhyme (except for the facts, the film & tv timeline, & the P.S. text),because.. well.. it's about Dr. Seuss! ]

Walt Disney, Jim Henson & Salvador Dali are masters of imagination,& one of them is Dr. Seuss, he's a creative sensation.A great children's book author, his books are remarkable,his whimsical art & fantastic poetry have made these books unbelievable.(actually, "The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins" &"The King's Stilts" are written in prose, not poetry)Dr. Seuss's weird & imaginative worldis beloved by many nations' young boys & girls.But he's not just the creator of the fantasy beyond,there's also other things he have worked on:a comic strip, magazines, advertisements & political cartoons too,& the WW2 Warner Bros. cartoon series named "Private Snafu".Also wonderful in the history of Dr. Seuss, as you'll see,is that his imagination comes to life in animated films & tv.This toon line-up including ones from our childhood memoriesbegins in the 1940's & 1950's,the early cartoons by Bob Clampett, George Pal & UPAforshadows that Dr. Seuss will have a big animated legacy someday.& in 1966, the legacy starts to grow enormouswhen the TVs are airing "How the Grinch Stole Christmas!".& from that year on, the world's getting more Seuss toons than before,with well-remembered characters & make-believe regions galore.& Chuck Jones, Ralph Bakshi, Hanna-Barbera & DePatie-Frelenghave made tv specials that leaves people with good feelings.& the Blue Sky Studios version of "Horton Hears a Who!"is a funny & wonderful movie adaption, it's true!The history of Dr. Seuss toons have come a long way,& we'll always enjoy watching the animated Seuss-ness anyday!

The Grinch In All of Us.“Villains are easy. Take the Grinch,” remarked animator and director Chuck Jones.“It was easy to understand someone who hates Christmas becausewe all hate something about Christmas a little bit. Some of us hate it a lot. Well, the Grinch hated it completely.The character was much easier to handle because he had that one object in life that was something we all had.”

“I know how to draw Bugs (Bunny), Daffy (Duck) and all of the others. It’s exactly like an actor approaching a role.The actor knows how to act, yet he must learn what the character has on his mind.And even though he’s doing the same character, the problems will be different for each new show.”

Cindy Lou Who.While animation legend Chuck Jones always contended thatthe design of Cindy Lou Who in “How the Grinch Stole Christmas” (1966)was supposedly modeled after his own granddaughter, Valerie,in 1996, he told an interviewer that “As for Cindy Lou Who,she was appealingly small and innocent. I drew her as seeming to bea great-grandchild of the Grinch in appearance—a diminutive Grinch,where everything is right where the Grinch is wrong.”

Boris Triumphs.During the taping of the narration for “How the Grinch Stole Christmas” (1966),actor Boris Karloff was quite ill and would pass away a little more than two years later.His emphysema had him wheezing badly and his back and legs were giving him great pain.

A friend of Ted Geisel’s (Dr. Seuss) was visiting the set that day.He was a well known cardiologist and as he watched Boris struggle,he went to Geisel and said, “That is a very sick man.I don’t know how he will be able to last through this.”

As Geisel remembered, “It was an exhausting day. Everything went wrong.At the end of the day, we were all wilted…except Boris.As we dragged ourselves off, he left whistling.”

Karloff later received a Grammy Award for “Best Recording For Children”after the Seuss story was released as a record.

Seuss Specials.When asked how involved Ted Geisel (Dr. Seuss) was with the television specials done by DePatie-Freleng using his characters,David DePatie told Charles Brubaker in 2010, "He was a very hands-on guy. He lived down in La Jolla and he would fly over here.During the course of the production it wasn't unusual to see him once a week. He was very instrumental in the creation of the series.Friz (Freleng) and I had a very good rapport with him. We enjoyed working with him and he enjoyed the studioand it was a far-cry from the bad experience he had with Chuck Jones on the earlier Christmas special.It was a very good relationship and everybody was pleased.I have sitting here in front of me three Emmys that we won for Dr. Seuss specials, with Friz and I as producers."

The Grinch.Chuck Jones, interviewed in Business Screen magazine (Aug/Sept 1982) said, "I think that’s why people like How The Grinch Stole Christmas,because here’s a guy who hates Christmas! Well, it doesn't take much effort of our part to realize that we hate Christmas, too!But maybe we try to keep it to ourselves. But when someone comes along who hates Christmas completely and openly – we love it!

"Everybody hates Christmas a little bit. They won’t admit it, but they do. They’re worried about buying the right presents and so on.Here's a guy who hated it completely and that was wonderful. I thought 'I can embrace this'."

You didn't include in the 2000s department the two Universal ones - their remakes of "Grinch" (2000) directed by Ron Howard and "The Cat in the Hat' (2003) directed by some guy named Bo Welch..but then again, those weren't animated. the MGM ones were coproduced by Chuck's own animation studo, as tied to MGM...interesting "Horton" by Chuck came out in March in 1970, with regards to DFE (which might as well have been UA) doing any of their specials, of which "Cat in the Hat" was the firt Dr.Seuss one, and the second, given DFE was just about to release their own prime time TV special debut, "Goldilocks"(3/31/70) .

Odd that Universal Studios didn't produce the 2008 "Horton" and Blue Sky/Fox did.Also agreed with your consensus on (2012's) "The Lorax"(when the good doctor's whimsy returned to Unviersal).Chuck certainly ran afoul of Dr.Seuss on those, and with Walt Kelly of the otther one he did as a TV sepcial of his three specials in all, 2//14/69's "Pogo". I kept seeing Wile E.Coyote in duplex with Grinch and Max the dog when they somersaulted willy nllly like a snowball down the hill! And those eyebrows...those eyebrows! Merry Christmas or which other holiday you subscribe to and a happy new years!

Seuss Specials.When asked how involved Ted Geisel (Dr. Seuss) was with the television specials done by DePatie-Freleng using his characters,David DePatie told Charles Brubaker in 2010, "He was a very hands-on guy. He lived down in La Jolla and he would fly over here.During the course of the production it wasn't unusual to see him once a week. He was very instrumental in the creation of the series.Friz (Freleng) and I had a very good rapport with him. We enjoyed working with him and he enjoyed the studioand it was a far-cry from the bad experience he had with Chuck Jones on the earlier Christmas special.It was a very good relationship and everybody was pleased.

So he had a bad experience with Chuck Jones on The Grinch (and presumably Horton)? I recently read at TV Tropes that Geisel was initially against allowing the animated adaptation but was friends with Jones which is what got him to change his mind.

No Seuss for Disney.Actor and clown Bill Irwin came to visit Ted Geisel (Dr. Seuss) at his house while Irwin was performing at the La Jolla Playhouse.He was seeking Geisel’s permission to play the role in a production of Cat In the Hat that Disney was proposing as a television special.Geisel said that he admired Irwin’s talent but had absolutely no interest in ever working with Disney.Geisel’s wife, Helen Palmer, had during the 1940s written some children’s books for Disney including Donald Duck Sees South America.

Here are Dr. Seuss’s 1949 animated Ford ads.(In 1950, some of them ran as TV commercials.This is why the title of this YouTube video,from boeJAnkins, is "Dr Seuss 1950",& boeJAnkins said "1950.Ford.Service.Commercials.by.Dr.Seuss.".).

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